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an awkward-looking arch, with the remains of a segmental label 
and its terminals over; but on looking at the north door we see 
that the peculiar form of the arch is due to to the cusping having 
been cut away. The remains of a niche—probably for a figure of 
Our Lady, to whom the Church is dedicated—exist over the door. 
The porch has the moulded oak ribs of its original roof, but the 
ridge-piece is missing. Even the door and its hinges are old. The 
outer doorway of the porch has the pointed arch under a square 
label, which is so common in late Perpendicular work. 
The nave arcade is of a peculiar type, but it was not constructed 
as we now see it, and some of its peculiarity disappears on closer 
inspection. The arches are panelled (the panelling being without 
cusping), and the ribs die out on to the face of the pillars; these 
latter were merely square piers, without caps or even an abacus mould. 
This simple form seems to have offended the eye of some more 
modern guardian of the Church, who (probably when the other 
alterations were made) pared off the angles to give the piers more 
the appearance of ordinary columns. 
I have no doubt that there was a chancel arch of similar kind, for 
there are no projecting responds: this, however, has disappeared, 
possibly improved away; but I think it is more likely that it fell, 
owing to the spreading of the abutments, for there are evidences 
everywhere of defective foundations—the south wall is going out 
and the nave arcade inclining northwards to an extent which should 
receive consideration. 
Further evidence of the chancel arch being the full width of the 
chancel is afforded by the lower part of the rood-screen, which 
remains intact, and apparently im situ, on the south side of the 
gangway: this has been cut off at the middle rail, and the mortices 
and pins of the upper stage can be seen. This rail has a broad flat 
member, which contained carving planted in, as at Edington, so 
that we may conclude the screen was a rich one. There are many 
pieces of it—mullions, &c.—used as supports to the seats (two or 
three being in one pew in the north aisle), and I have no doubt the 
removal of the more modern pews would reveal sufficient evidence 
for the entire restoration of the screen. 
